I finally started the Tau I've been toying with for some time now. I thought I had a great color scheme planned. I'd do a black prime then use red gore for the main color and codex grey for the trim/random armor panels like you see in Tau so often. Last night I started painting a crisis suit and the red gore isn't covering well at all. I've done 3 light coats and it's just now starting to look passable. I figure one more light coat will do it, but if every model will take this much work, I'm going to have to rethink things. Is there anything I could do to get the paint to coat better? If I don't have a way soon, I'll probably invert the scheme and make the red the secondary and grey the primary. That way I can still use the red model as my Shas'o and he'll stand out as the HQ. Any ideas?
PS, I use Citadel paints.